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you want to get into women's rugby. watch the video.
jrr tolkien does not get enough credit for his funny bitch move of inventing the word ‘gentlehobbit’
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yall i swear to god if a bitch says her pronouns are she/her then her pronouns are she/her
my close friend from uni was a cis girl who had the audacity to wear pants and cut her hair short and like nobody at this school, a place OBSESSED with ‘respecting everyone’s gender identities,’ would call her ‘she.’ after MONTHS of this she started wearing a fucking pronoun pin to work and i dont even think that fixed it. me, im sorta androgynous; i have shaggy self-cut hair and go by a neutral name, but i always say my pronouns are she/her, and people ive worked with for months and have introduced myself in front of fifty times will STILL reflexively say ‘they’ for me. i respect the progressive circles i run in, but this IS evidence of misogyny. people’s definition of “woman” or “girl” is so narrow and high-maintenance that even the tiniest deviation from the norm gets you forcibly defeminized. but it’s a compliment, right? like who would wanna be a girl anyway?
replacing an inescapable gender binary with an equally-inescapable gender trinary is stupid 🩷
people talk about how we need to bring back "don't feed the trolls" rhetoric for modern internet ragebait and I agree but also I think the most useful thing from the Old Internet that I miss is LURKING
be a lurker. just read things and think about them without feeling the need to weigh in or call out or disseminate everything you encounter. it's so nice and so freeing and it's a good way to learn things.
I have frequently regretted getting involved in shit that didn't involve me online but you know what I've never regretted doing? Lurking. literally lurk moar
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It's funny when I get the "You seem to be experiencing interruptions. Find out why" popup as if two unskippable 30-second ads wouldn't feel way more intrusive and annoying than a slight delay for a video to start.
"You seem to be experiencing interruptions. Find out why." I know why.
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No but it always kills me how CURUFIN is the one who had Angrist all along and that he did fuck all with it until Beren and Luthien took it from him. The one knife strong enough to pry a Silmaril from Morgoth's crown.
And Celegorm had Huan!! These two Feanorian brothers specifically had all they needed to at least make an attempt at retrieving the Silmarils and it never really occurred them to TRY.
In my opinion, this does not even occur to them - because subterfuge as a means of attack is not an option in the institutional sense for princes accustomed first and foremost to achieving their ends by military & political machinations, by open battle or by rhetoric that takes advantage of the structures of power within which they have lived their entire lives entrenched. What Beren and Lúthien do requires a certain forfeiture of pride - a forfeiture of pride necessitated by the fact that they do not have any feudal systemic power behind them, in fact they are acting against the interests and desires of that power, so they have to come to terms with using means that eschew pride in order to win the freedom to decide their own fate.
No such thing has ever been in question for Celegorm & Curufin, as princes who have always been backed by systemic power or only temporarily disadvantaged yet still construed as within the right in their framework of power; the Exile is a schism, Maedhros' abdication is unprecedented, Nargothrond is seized by rhetoric and populism, Doriath - as later Sirion - are assaulted by means of military power. And what examples has Fëanor given them? That subterfuge and infiltration are the tools of Morgoth (theft; disguise; lie) and the way that Fëanor himself had been wronged (infiltration of the family structure by Indis), not something a king or prince is liable or allowed to use. Fëanor himself utilises rhetoric and takes advantage of the legal framework, and if no other thing will avail, uses military power and force to achieve his objectives, and decries cowardice, where a line can be drawn to assume that direct, open conflict is thus assumed to be the morally correct path to attain what you want. Celegorm and Curufin, the two most likened to Fëanor, exemplify his lack of willingness to treat with anyone considered a traitor to the cause or compromise on their objectives perhaps best of all. To them, guile is both humiliating and morally suspect in this ideological framework; the sons of Fëanor in Beleriand utilise force, organise military operations, send intimidating letters and use political posturing, but nothing akin to guile even such as Fingon uses to rescue Maedhros from Thangorodrim. That brings me to the second reason: guile missions in the Silmarillion require a certain amount of faith and hope in things turning out the right way, and a certain amount of divine providence. Fingon would not have succeeded without prayer just as Lúthien would not have enjoyed the fruits of their success without convincing Mandos. But hope in divine favour is not something that people famously eschewing the authority of the Valar and undertaking a blasphemous oath not once, but twice, would champion; clinging to hope for aid from the same people considered to have betrayed the cause & good of the Eldar is not to be expected. In light of that, relying on goodwill clearly seems like a suicide mission, especially in the aftermath of the Dagor Bragollach which has revealed that all of the military might the Noldor have been amassing is still insufficient to move any closer to their goal. The only possible way forwards is more power, more resources, more bodies. There is no hope to talk of.
So of course it does not occur to them to try; to try is not just humiliating and amoral, but a waste of resources and foolish to boot, inevitably doomed to fail.
#interesting meta. I could challenge a few points but it's a fascinating discussion and I do really think#the notion that the Feanorians should have tried at least to steal the Silmarilli isn't I think what the narrative frames here as#the missed opportunity but rather that they could have worked some way WITH Beren and Luthien (after all there is a point in#allying with the heir of a king like Thingol you're clashing with and earning thus an in to the Menegroth scene should you succeed)#but Otto makes very interesting points about why even that would be entirely outside of some fundamental worldviews of the#Feanorian camp. And I do think that though C+C are often framed as guileful for their acts in Nargothrond that they are indee really not#their provocations and speeches are very open and populist. The opposite of cloak and dagger really. Never understood where#behind the shadows manipulative Celegorm and Curufin comes from. as a trope. Like they are orating on the main floor.
@antlered-vixen allying with Beren (mortal Man; vassal of a second son of a lesser house; outlaw without any kind of feudal capital in the ill will of Thingol) and Lúthien (Sinda, Dark elf, woman going against the will of her father, again in the ill will of an actual authority they may want to extract resources from) would have to be seen as a viable option in the first place. While sticking it to Thingol for the insult of desiring a Silmaril in the first place may seem attractive narratively, it would mean aiding and abetting a perceived hierarchical lesser, forgoing their pride and even taking a risk against themselves on their behalf - for a quest that is framed ostensibly as a quest of love (and there is that 'neither law, nor love, nor league of swords' line in the oath that I find symbolically relevant here) rather than a quest of military opposition to Morgoth, and clandestine and as such in their eyes perceived as inherently doomed. And I really do not see C&C putting aside both ideology wrt/ how conflict should be led & their conceptions of hierarchy of power & their value framework of acceptable efforts just to stick it to Thingol, definitely not in this manner at least. IMO the very premise of a love-quest against the will of Thingol, who at least has the legal authority and resources on his side, would be seen as offensively frivolous. Anyway I really need to finish writing Herzkranzgefäß which is precisely about this
Oh, entirely agree. As I said, the worldview and character traits C+C carry would not permit for that to be seen as a possibility, for all the reasons you describe, and more. I was speaking more of Tolkien's own deontological implications. What he implies from that "negative space" (as this post by @magicalmanhattanproject points out) to be his ideal story-shape, that the tragedy of the Noldor makes intrinsically impossible. You know, what he feels C+C should have done - what Finrod actually does, and it is clearly framed as a redemptive arc. And I feel like Angrist and Huan symbolising there on some level the resources of C+C, seems to imply Tolkien imagined this possibility of their redemptives arcs that are, again, impossible to them - this is, after all, the whole tragedy. I am not, however, even implying I entirely agree with Tolkien's own framing in this, actually. I do think one can make a strong argument that Finrod's act and choice, and even the Oath of Barahir to begin with, are rather complex and not entirely noble and without concerns about what the priorities and loyalties of a King are meant to be in the feudal social contract.
oh gosh my little word spillings are ending up in the Big Word Spillings circles i better spill more words about it
for the record, i do think beren "i have in my hand a silmaril in the stomach of a giant werewolf rampaging through your kingdom so i gave you exactly what you wanted" baraharion would be totally amenable to "i have in my hand a silmaril and you've seen it and now im giving it to celegorm"
but actually the guile and intrigue angle adds an interesting tenor to their interactions
their first encounter, beren has the weakest claim to power in his own right but exerts the most political power: "hi i have a doomed quest and im absconding with your king about it"
the second encounter, luthien represents both a chance at power via forcing thingol to heel {also just a moment here to be like. okay i know we all know this but i have to say it. tolkien you can't just law and customs your way out of this is a rape threat. apologiees for my whimsical parenthesis my regular on is broken} and also a chance to influence the quest via a show of force: beren is locked in a tower and luthien wants help breaking him out. you can bring an army to tol-in-gaurhoth and save the day. or you can try to get the alliance with thingol you apparently want so badly??? okay??
the third encounter, beren and luthien are at their apparent weakest – alone in the wilderness – but if c+c thought with their heads for two fucking seconds they would realize that alone in the wilderness is a definite improvement over tol-in-gaurhoth and that implies something about the potential for success here
c+c fuck up their third chance too and only after their third chance do they finally lose their chances entirely. i think it's important that redemption was never impossible until they made it that way. they could have just. not tried to kill beren and kidnap luthien. no one made them do that. they always had the chance to turn off their path and just. didn't.
oh well lol